Review: Owls Do Cry
Owls Do Cry is not your typical theatrical retelling of a book. Instead, it is a complete reinterpretation of the work through movement, design and song. The show starts very light-hearted with a chorus of singing, movement and audience interaction. As the show continues, however, it draws you into the real pain and fragility of […]
Book in for DCM Bookfair this Saturday
Head to Shed 6, this Saturday 4 August, 8am-6pm, for the DCM Bookfair (the largest of its kind in Wellington) supporting an amazing cause — ending homelessness. Yes, go shopping for books and every cent you spend helps most marginalised people in our city. Bookfair is full of solutions to boredom at spectacular prices. Yes there […]
DCM Bookfair dates & donations
The day of the 2017 DCM Bookfair is Set. Set aside time for book foraging on Saturday August 5th from 8am till 8pm, at Shed 6 in Queens Wharf. Want to donate books to DCM’s Bookfair on 5 August? This week, is your last chance to donate books because there is a strong likelihood DCM may have […]
Books, Books & more Books
It’s only 3 days till DCM’s very delightful & very Large annual bookfair. Over 75,000 have been sorted and packed ready for sale starting 8am this Saturday at Shed 6, Queen’s Wharf. This year it’s a one day event running for 12 hours from 8am till 8pm. At the bookfair you’ll find classics, cook books, […]
Read Books, Save Lives — The Annual DCM Bookfair
Instead kicking off on all the amazing books you’ll find at Bookfair this weekend. I thought you might like to know how cold it’s been in Wellington, last night it was 2.7°C in Kelburn overnight, with a light dusting of snow. Snow is fun except when you don’t have a place to call home, to store your belongings, […]
Curl up with a good Bookfair
It’s true i get excited by books, and every year i get excited by the Annual DCM Bookfair, which lucky for my excitement meter (which dipped a bit post film festival) is on this weekend. At The DCM Bookfair you’ll find over 90,000 books Books, Magazine, Comics, Graphic Novels, jigsaw-puzzles, games, DVDs, CDs, Vinyl Records, Stamps .… […]
One Sleep till Bookfair
Saturday is Wellington’s most amazing, most awesome, most excellent, book related event of the year — The DCM Annual Bookfair Take 90000+ books, add LPs, CDs, DVDs, Cassettes, Magazines, Jigsaw Puzzles & Games galore. Everyone going to bookfair has a strategy for this is one of those very few shopping events when you can’t spend ‘too […]
10 days till DCM Bookfair
I’m officially on DCM bookfair countdown, it’s only 10 days to go until the biggest, most amazing book event of the year in Wellington. Imagine any kind of book/game/puzzle, CD, DVD, LP you love and you’ll find it at Bookfair , Saturday & sunday 17 — 18 August 2013 at the TSB Bank Arena. It’s […]
Waiting
Not sure if the Ohiro Road bus-stop bookcase and sofas have survived the weather and/or vandals (reports, anyone?), but, either way, here’s a lovely video by Dan Adams documenting this fantastic urban enhancement… Waiting from Dan Adams on Vimeo. via Eye of the Fish
The bookworms be out in force
One rather delightful advantage of the Rugby World Cup is the arrival of the Downtown Community Ministry Book Fair in July, two months ahead of its normal timing. One might feel a little put out that rugby is screwing with your life, but this Wellingtonista thinks it’s the reverse. Personally I turn into a bit […]